We started the week with deep snow. On Saturday I got my new snowpants in the mail and took a walk with the kids. But the weather was warm enough that we didn’t need coats. The warm trend continued all week and by Friday the snow was almost...
“Kneel to your load, then balance your staggering feet and walk up that coal ladder as they do in time, one bare foot after the next in ancestral rhyme. Because Rhyme remains the parentheses of palms shielding a candle’s tongue, it is...
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
–Carl Sandburg
You are the temple of God When I was in high school I memorized The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes. I’ve forgotten most of it now, but the first part of final stanza has stayed with me, the part of the poem that I loved best Build thee...
I came across this snippet about the invention of the Middle Ages in today’s reading, one of those things that immediately lit up a dozen different connections in my brain: “Flavio Biondi of Forli (1392-1463), while celebrating Florence...
Sunday: Stayed home from Mass with sick kids (I was feeling pretty sick too). Read a pile of Beatrix Potter books to sick Lucy. Monday February 13 Ben did a page of math and two pages of letters and copied a sentence. Sophie did a page of math...
We seem to be on something of a volcanoes kick of late, one of those perfect storms of interest that leads to a spontaneous unit study. I love the way it happens that when you start paying attention to a topic, it’s suddenly everywhere, all...
I don’t read many homeschool blogs these days and those I do read tend to be blogs by people who happen to homeschool and sometimes write about homeschooling but often write about all sorts of other interesting things. But a few different...
I’ve been trying to draw and sketch more. I haven’t set myself a particular goal, though I think I’m trying to at least pull out my sketchbook once a week. Some weeks I manage almost every day. Some weeks I never get to it. But on...
Monday February 6 Everyone did math and copywork. Sophie also read me geography. Bella also did a bit of Latin. Bella and I played a couple of rounds of speed and I tested her on the seven times table with some flashcards and she readily remembered...
